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8 February, 2011
16:00
The student’s response was that this was not consistent with what they had learned in their journalism classes: they were taught “upside-down pyramid thinking” and that “facts were facts.” This was an astute observation. After asking my class what upside-down pyramid thinking was, and after joking that “an upside-down pyramid cannot stand” (one student laughed), I realized that the student’s response was dead on: my students were unable to differentiate between how to reason, and how to present information in a report. Facts were primitives.
